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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What young Jing-Mei senses is that she will soon _________________________.
(a) Be a rock star
(b) Become perfect
(c) Be discovered
(d) Become invisible

2. Jing Mei is afraid that if she does not find the prodigy in herself she will _________________________-.
(a) Not learn to play chess
(b) Always be nothing
(c) Not be able to compete with her cousin
(d) Not quite measure up

3. An-Mei's mother left her behind in order to _____________________________________________.
(a) Have her raised by a woman who was more stable
(b) Save her from her new husband's disregard
(c) Save An-Mei from her own humiliated station in life
(d) Let her have a life with her younger brother

4. The event that clouds An-Mei's early memory of her mother was _________________________________________________.
(a) She fell as she ran toward her mother
(b) She becomes convinced her that her mother was dead
(c) She was severely burned as her mother was leaving
(d) Her aunt slapped her face

5. An-Mei Hsu uses her Bible as ___________________________________.
(a) An excuse for all of her bad experiences
(b) A stabilizer under the leg of her table
(c) A crutch to try to be right about everything
(d) A family history

Short Answer Questions

1. An-Mei lives in the house owned by ___________________________.

2. Popo says a girl who refused to listen to her elders ___________________________.

3. How did Lena learn that a new baby was coming?

4. Ying Ying was disappointed to find out the Moon Lady in the play _________________________________.

5. The mother's superstitions may have been confirmed when ___________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Waverly's unusual talent becomes a reason to pamper and spoil her. Does she appreciate this treatment? How does it affect her?

2. Jing-Mei Woo's mother and Waverly Jong's mother compete through their daughters' failures and successes. Are the two women friends?

3. Discuss why the current members of the Joy Luck Club have invested their winnings in the stock market.

4. What is the root problem in Rose's marriage?

5. Does the little girl fall from the bicycle because her mother is right, or because she is afraid her mother is right, or is it just a chance circumstance?

6. Discuss the reason that An-Mei's mother is considered a "ghost" and does not live with her children.

7. Lindo Jong became the property of her husband's family long before she went to live with them. Discuss how this changed the way her mother perceived her and treated her.

8. June Woo started the American Joy Luck Club because she sensed the grief in the other Chinese people she met here. How does the club help June Woo deal with her own tragic memories?

9. Discuss the unusual circumstances under which Lena lives.

10. Discuss Waverly's mother's response to Waverly's success. Why might a daughter of Lindo Jong be seen as special? Why would Lindo want to brag and grandstand her daughter?

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